What Are You Reading?

Mistress of Life and Death by Susan Eischied.

 

Should finish 'Stranger in a Strange Land' tonight or tomorrow. As for now : It makes you think ! We Humans are Strange. ! But then again not so much.

Next up; " To Fly and Fight" Memories of a Triple Ace'. Col. Clarence E. "Bud" Anderson with Joseph P. Hamelin. Foreword by General Chuck Yeager.

 

The Haunted Tank, #12.

 

The monkey house really got to me when I first read that book.

I did a book report on SiaSL when I was in the 10th grade. Teacher asked for three pages, I wrote seven. She asked to borrow my copy, I told her there was one in the school library. (Nobody got my copy.) She was on two year contract, fresh out of college with a teaching degree. She was so impressed with that book that she made it assigned reading the next year. And she was not renewed at our school because too many parents were complaining about the "dirty parts". My father came home from work during the hullabaloo and asked me if they had "that book" in the school library. I showed him the copy I was reading then, checked out from that library. It must have been an underground hit because it was on the fifth check out slip, where they put the due date. I waited for Dad to say something else but he shut up. He was pretty sure I'd been raiding his porn collection for a few years at that point. Very educational, that lot.

 

It is, but you have to think in Martian.

 

And it was 1961 v. 1987. Small diff.

 

It's a classic. Starts with "Once upon a time there was a Martian by the name of Michael Valentine Smith." It's the book that made Heinlein "Dean of Science Fiction."

 

Good God Man ! NO SPOILERS !! I'm on page 256-7 and it's starting to get interesting ! If this turns into a 'Planet of the Apes' thing I'll mail it back to you.
Although, ....... after reading the first half I realized I've Kissed a Martian. It was 52 years ago and I didn't actually faint but - Time stood still and I may have blacked out a minute or so. Hey we were both seventeen and she was.. Damn you!

 

Read that a few years ago and donated it to a local Library.

 

Had two relatives at Hue, track toad Marines IIRC. Saw one of them just before I left for boot camp in '69. He had the eyes.

 

Finished "Stranger in a Strange Land" last night. Once again I blame the monkeys! At least we Humans hold on to some self restraint. Well some of us. I took away from the book : We are easily persuaded when it suits our purpose, We are deaf dumb & blind when it doesn't, The way to Truth is through Me and only my teachings.
The old adage 'Do Unto Others as You Would Have Done unto You' is nice in Theory or 'Fool me once - Shame on You etc. In actuality it's more like ; Do unto others as they have done unto you.
It kind of reminded me of "A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy".
Overall I enjoyed ! The dude could write !